A record number of solicitors from the UK registered in Ireland this year after the Brexit vote, the Law Society of Ireland said.
A “tsunami” of solicitors from England and Wales will see 810 added to the roll in Ireland by the end of 2016, out of a total 1,347 new registrations since the start of the year, it said.
The new registrations follow Britain’s June 23 decision to leave the European Union and include 117 names from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, one of the world’s largest law firms.
Law Society director general Ken Murphy said while visiting London in mid-July that Freshfields had stated they wanted to be able to handle European Union cases.
“They were doing it to allay any conceivable concerns in the future about the status of their solicitors in dealing with EU institutions, including in relation to legal privilege in EU investigations,” Murphy was quoted in the Law Society Gazette as saying. [...]
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